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""Philosophical Thoughts"" By Ernest Rodriguez
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Philosophical Thoughts by Ernest Rodriguez Thoughts, words, actions. Tools of men given to them by an unknown power we call God to change the world into the desired form of his superior intellect. How men use these tools and to what purpose determines their personal worth and is a measure of their greatness before men and God. It is easy to use these gifts to pay honor to self and to other men for the rewards of self gratification and worldly esteem. Much more exacting is to forget self and disregard men and use these gifts or tools to pay honor to God and his purpose or will which we sometimes secularly refer to as moral principles. And the reward for following such a course of action is nothing we have ever experienced, seen or felt and yet man place implicit faith in the certainty of a divine reward for unbending obedience to God's will. The very nature then of such a force that pulls and pushes men along a course leading to an undefinable and questionable end in the tested schema of logic is miraculous. There is a magical quality about the unselfish manner of men to harness their thoughts, words and actions in pursuit of some unknown mystical Holy Grail called life everlasting.
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Philosophical Thoughts by Ernest Rodriguez Thoughts, words, actions. Tools of men given to them by an unknown power we call God to change the world into the desired form of his superior intellect. How men use these tools and to what purpose determines their personal worth and is a measure of their greatness before men and God. It is easy to use these gifts to pay honor to self and to other men for the rewards of self gratification and worldly esteem. Much more exacting is to forget self and disregard men and use these gifts or tools to pay honor to God and his purpose or will which we sometimes secularly refer to as moral principles. And the reward for following such a course of action is nothing we have ever experienced, seen or felt and yet man place implicit faith in the certainty of a divine reward for unbending obedience to God's will. The very nature then of such a force that pulls and pushes men along a course leading to an undefinable and questionable end in the tested schema of logic is miraculous. There is a magical quality about the unselfish manner of men to harness their thoughts, words and actions in pursuit of some unknown mystical Holy Grail called life everlasting.
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